Mitsubishi UFJ Lease is Buying U.S.-based Jackson Square Aviation from Oaktree Capital Group for approximately $130 billion.
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China's Services Sector On Upswing According to HSBC PMI: Reuters
In contrast to China's Official National Bureau of Statistics report, the HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index for September showed the country's services sector recovering, Reuters reported today.
IMF's Lipton Calls on U.S. to Address Fiscal Cliff
Reuters) - A polarized Washington that cannot find a way around the looming "fiscal cliff" is compounding economic uncertainty, freezing business investment and threatening growth, the IMF's No. 2 official and its top-ranking American said on Monday.
Casting a Wide Net, European Private Equity Firms Draw In High-Yield Investors
As Europe’s sovereign debt crisis continues and banks grow increasingly selective about making loans for deals involving private equity, European private equity firms are being forced to look elsewhere for the financing they need to complete acquisitions, based on Friday's NYT DealBook article.
“Taken 2”: Critics and Audiences Differ in Their Reviews
Critics give the movie "Taken 2" a score of only 19 percent on Rotten Tomatoes while the audience ranks it at 76 percent.
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Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch stirred up a brouhaha with today's tweet: "Unbelievable jobs numbers...these Chicago guys will do anything...can't debate so change numbers," CNN reported.
A seven judge panel ruled on Thursday that 41 lawsuits filed in California, Florida and New York against Facebook, NASDAQ and underwriters connected to the social media's IPO in May be heard in New York, Bloomberg reported.
The most recent report from the Department of Labor showed a 7.8 percent drop in unemployment for September, with 873,000 people added to the payrolls.
Starbucks' customers who own smartphones (iPhones and Androids) will be able to pay with the Square Wallet mobile device starting early next month.
In the midst of an ongoing New York State investigation into the accounting practices of some of the country's largest private equity firms, two Republican Congressmen asked State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office to "cease its efforts" with regard to requests for tax information made directly to the entities involved, The Huffington Post reported last week.
Ralls Corp., the Chinese-owned company that was blocked by President Obama on Friday from building four wind farms in Northern Oregon, has added President Barack Obama as a defendant in a lawsuit alleging that the government exceeded its authority, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
China's 7 Days Group Holdings, owner of the country's second largest hotel chain, received a buyout offer to go private last week from a consortium that includes the Carlyle Group, Sequoia Capital China and the company's co-chairmen Boquan He and Nanyan Zheng.
Reuters reports the merger and acquisition deals of the day. (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Thursday: Two former top aides to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday he should approve a $15.
U.S. President Barack Obama waves with Vice President Joe Biden after Obama accepted the 2012 U.S Democratic presidential nomination during the final session of Democratic National Convention in Charlotte
07/09/2012
